Vehicle draft appliance.



PATENTED APR. 24, 1906. O. J. BOLTE.

VEHICLE DRAFT APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14, 1905.

Witnesses Inventor os'iirsn smr is earns 1 OFFICE.

CHARLES J. BOLTlI. OF COLUMBUS, WISCONSIN.

VEHICLE DRAFT APPLIANCE.

No. 18.997. 7 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed November 14. 1905. Serial No. 287.307.

T 1.67? when) y "(HI/(WW1: 22 23 being thus dis osed in position for ad' Beit known that I, CHARLES J. BQLTE, a justnient toward anc away from the arm 15, citizen of the inted States, residing at but also free to swing at the free ends upon lumbus, in the county of Columbia and State the clamp-bolts 24 Pivoted at 26 27 to of \Visconsin, have invented a new and uscthe free ends of the bars 22 23 are links 28 29, 6o ful Vehicle Draft Appliance, of which the lolextending inwardly and overlapping above lowing is a specification. and below the rear end of the arm 15. The This invention relates to the draft applilinks 28 29 are slotted at their inner ends, as anccs of vehicles, and has for its object to imat 30, and supplied with a clam bolt 31, prove the construction and increase the efiiextending through the slots am likewise cicncy and adaptability of devices of this through the arm, so that the rear ends of the character. bars 22 23 may be adjusted farther from or With these and other objects in view, which nearer to the arm and locked in any desired will appear as the nature of the invention is adjusted position.

better understood. the invention consists in The bars 22 23 are designed to fit between ccrtainnovelieaturesof construction. as herethe hounds 32 33 of the iorward axle 34 and a' ter lully described and claimed. coupled niovably thereto by the usual pivot- [n the accompanying drawings,forming a bolt 35, extending through the hounds and ,mrt of this specification, and in which correlikewise through the bars 22 23 and arm 15.

ponding parts are denoted by like dcsignat The bars 22 33 are adjustable laterally to enng characters, is illustrated the preferred able the device to be readily adapted to diform of the embodiment of the invention lerent forms and sizes of hounds, as will be zap-able oi carrying the same into practical obvious. The bars 22 '23 are provided with oration, it being understood that various -n1ctal wear-strips 3o 37, as shown.

ranges in the form, proportion, and minor Nt(l \-'Ul 0s 3S 3%) are movably coupled to details of construction may be resorted to the forward ends of the tongues 10 11. without departing from the. principle or sae- Having thus described the invention, what riiicing any of the advantages of this invenis claimed is-- lion within the scope'ol the appended claims. 1. As a new article, a draft appliance for Figure l is a. plan view of the. improved dcvehicles having bars movably disposed at opvice applied. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on )osite sides of the rear ortion, and means the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. ior ar'ljust-ing said bars re ative to said appli- The improved device may be adapted ance to adapt the bars for hearing between without material structural changes to a the axle-hounds of the vehicle. single dralttongue employed for two horses ZfAs a new article, a draft ap liance for 0 or to double or spaced tongues employed for vehicles having an arm extending rearthrce horses and for the purpose of illustrawardly thereof and with bars niovably distion is shown applied to a draft appliance posed at opposite sidesoi the arm,and means embracing the spaced tongues for a thrcclor adjusting said bars relative to said arm to horse team, the tongues being rcprcsentml adapt the bars for hearing between the axle- 5 at l0 l1 and connected at the rear ends by a hounds of the vehicle.

transverse bar 12 and with diagonal connect- 3. As a new article, a draft appliance for lug-braces 13 vehicles having bars movably disposed at opl lxtending rcarwardly oi the bar I) is an posiic sides of the rear portion, means for adarm 15, and extending over the bar and-a rm usting said bars relative to said appliance to roo are spaced plates 16 17, riveted or bohcda-t adapttbc bars for hearing between the axle- ]8 19 to the bar and arm, forming a rigid bounds of the vehicle, and a pivot-bolt exooupling means for uniting these parts. The tending transversely through said adjustable plates 16 17 are providcdwith slots 2o '21 oxbars and the side members of the axlc-hounds tending laterallvolthc arm 15 and parallel to 4. As a new article, a draft appliance for the transverse bar 112. Disposed at urn end vehicles having an arm extending rearbctween the plates n; .17 are bars 3;. 21;, and wardly lhcrool' and with bars movablv disadjustably coupled to the plates by t'liil'nfqw posed a: opposite sides of the arm, means or bolts 24 25, extendingihrough ihoshds 201:! i dju:-:ting said bars rciative to said arm to and likewise through the iairs 122 13.), the bars .1 adapt the bars for hearing between the axlc- 1m hounds of the vehicle, and a pivot-bolt extending transversely through said adjustable bars and arm and the side members of the axlehounds.

5. As a new article, a draft apoliance for vehicles having .an arm exten ing rearwardly thereoi, spaced plates connectin said draft appliance and arm and provided with slots extending laterally of the arm,- bars disposed at one end between said lates and coupled adjustably thereto by campbolts extending through the slots therein, slotted links pivoted at one end to the free ends of said bars and overlapping at said arm, and a clamp-bolt operating t ough said arm and the slots in said links.

6. A device of the class described comprising spaced tongues connected at the rear by a transverse bar, an arm extending rearwardly of said bar, spaced bars movably disposed at opposite sides of said arm, and means for ad usting said bars relative to saidarm for adapting them to the axle-hounds of avehicle.

'7 A device of the class described comprising spaced tongues connected at the rear by a transverse bar, an arm extending rearwardly of said transverse bar, spaced plates connecting said transverse bar and arm and provided with slots extending laterally of the arm, bars disposed at one end between said plates and coupled adjustably thereto by clamp bolts extending through the slots therein, slotted links pivoted at one end to the'free ends of said bars and overlapping at said arm, and a clam -b0lt operating through said arm and the s ots in sa dvli nks.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in the presence of tWo witnesses.

CHARLES J. BOLTE.

Witnesses:

- E. E. BROSSARD,

JOSEPHINE G. AUSTIN. 

